Three ministers resign ahead of Cabinet rejig

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September 1, 2017

New Delhi, Sept 1: Three Union ministers submitted their resignations on Thursday ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle.

Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra and Minister of State for Water Resources Sanjeev Balyan submitted their resignations.

A source said BJP president Amit Shah had called five more ministers, including Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, and told them that the prime minister wanted them to resign. The source said that the Cabinet reshuffle may take place either on Saturday or Sunday before Modi leaves for Beijing to attend the BRICS summit.

The prime minister will visit Myanmar for two days beginning September 5. Also, President Ram Nath Kovind will not be in the national capital on Friday.

If reshuffle does not happen in this window, then it may take place after Navaratri, which begins on September 21. The days between September 5 and September 21 is considered inauspicious.

Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had dropped hints that he won’t be defence minister for long as a reshuffle was on the cards.

When asked to comment about the reshuffle, Jaitley said, “At least I hope not very long” to continue as defence minister.

Modi had held several rounds of consultations with Shah and other top leaders as the Cabinet rejig is also being seen as a performance audit.

Minister of State for Human Resource Development Mahendranath Pandey has offered to resign following the party’s decision to make him the Uttar Pradesh BJP president.

Apart from Jaitley, other ministers who are holding additional charges may have to offload the burden as this is expected to be the large major exercise before Modi seeks a fresh mandate in 2019.

The reshuffle is expected to bring in fresh faces to infuse new energy into the government. The reshuffle will also take into account the BJP’s focus in the poll-bound states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.

Modi will also draft leaders from the JD(U) into his team after the party returned to the NDA fold. The BJP’s Maharashtra ally, the Shiv Sena, is likely to get another berth.

But as per Article 72 of the Constitution, it can go up to 82 since it says that the council of ministers shall not exceed 15% of the number of members in the Lok Sabha.

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Real Ayodhya is in Nepal, Lord Ram was Nepali, says Nepal PM

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July 14,2020

Kathmandu, Jul 14: After staking claim to Indian territories of Lipulekh-Kalapani in a new controversial map, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday claimed that Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Rama, is in Nepal and Lord Rama was Nepali.

“Although real Ayodhya lies at Thori, city in the west of Birgunj, India has claimed that Lord Rama was born there. Due to these continuous claims, even we have believed that deity Sita got married to Prince Rama of India. However, in reality, Ayodhya is a village lying west of Birgunj,” Oli claimed at an event organised at Prime Minister's residence in Kathmandu.

The Prime Minister also blamed India of cultural encroachment by “creating a fake Ayodhya.”

“Balmiki Ashram is in Nepal and the holy place where King Dashrath had executed the rites to get the son is in Ridi. Dashrath’s son Ram was not an Indian and Ayodhya is also in Nepal,” he claimed.

In an attempt to save self from criticism, Oli questioned how Lord Rama could come to Janakpur to marry Sita when there were "no means" of communication. He further said that it to be impossible for Lord Rama to come to Janakpur from present Ayodhya that lies in India.

“Janakpur lies here and Ayodhya there and there is talk of marriage. There was neither telephone nor mobile then how could he know about Janakpur,” Oli said.

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With over 2.36 Lakh COVID-19 cases & record single-day spike, India overtakes Italy as 6th worst hit country

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June 6,2020

New Delhi, Jun 6: With 9,887 new positive cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count touched 2,36,657 on Saturday surpassing Italy's latest tally of over 2.34 lakh, taking India to the sixth spot among countries with the highest caseloads of the virus.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said that India registered a spike of 9887 new cases and 294 deaths in the past 24 hours taking the tally to 1,15,942 active cases and 6642 deaths.

Today's count was the highest single-day spike in the country, which has now overtaken Italy, according to the tally posted by the Johns Hopkins University which posted that globally the coronavirus had infected over 66.64 lakh people and claimed over 3.91 lakh lives so far.

In india, the MoHFW informed that 1,14,073 persons have been cured/discharged/migrated so far.

Maharashtra remains the worst-hit State as the total number of COVID-19 positive cases reached 80,229. While the total number of active cases in the state stands at 42,224.

In Tamil Nadu, 28,694 cases have been detected so far while Delhi has reported 26,334 coronavirus cases.

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COVID-19 global count tops 9.4 million, death toll surpasses 480,000

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June 27,2020

LGeneva, Jun 27:: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has risen by over 177,000 in the past 24 hours to 9.4 million and the death toll has topped 480,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday (local time).

On Thursday, the WHO reported 167,056 new cases and 5,336 related deaths.

The fresh daily situation report estimates the number of infections confirmed in the past 24 hours at 177,012. Further, 5,116 virus-related deaths were reported over the same period, taking the toll to 484,249.

The Americas lead the count with over 4.7 million cases, followed by Europe with more than 2.6 million.

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